Ecstatic Transformation : On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages

Name: Ecstatic Transformation
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9781403965240
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9781403965240

2005 ed.

by M. Uebel

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Format Hardback

Book Series The New Middle Ages

ISBN-10 1403965242

ISBN-13 9781403965240

Edition 2005 ed.

Publisher Palgrave USA

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 13th, 2005

Print length 227 Pages

Weight 402 grams

Dimensions 14.80 x 42.40 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

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This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c.

This book studies the manner in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental "other" were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to an understanding of alterity having as much to do with the ways the medieval West understood itself as the manner in which the foreign was mapped. Drawing upon the insights of cultural studies, film studies, and psychoanalysis, this book rethinks the contours of the known and the unknown in the medieval period. It demonstrates how the idea of otherness intersected in intricate ways with other categories of difference (spatial, gender, and religious). Scholars in the fields of history as well as literary and religious studies will be interested in the manner in which the book considers the formal dimensions of how histories of the Oriental "other" were written and lived.

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